GURUGRAM: Union minister Harsh Vardhan on Friday urged chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar to change the name of Bhondsi ashram to "Chandra Shekhar Smriti Van", a day ahead of the launch of an eco-tourism and nature awareness centre there. Khattar will inaugurate the centre on Saturday, while Vardhan is the chief guest at the event.

Bhondsi ashram, which was once a farmhouse of former Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar, has been shrouded in controversy after the Haryana government took over parts of it in 1998. There was no work on the ashram done during the years of Congress rule . "I also feel it will be befitting tribute in the honour of great personality like Shri Chandra Shekhar. I shall be personally grateful if suitable instructions are issued in this regard," the Union minister for Science & Technology and Earth Sciences wrote to Khattar (a copy of the letter is with TOI).

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